 dmpage olman history among those that are still in possession of it stretches back even further than that of the mainland although their origins are lost in the mists of time by 2500 years ago various uncivilized tribes of olman roamed the deeper jungles of north hepmonaland occasionally warring with each other and building shrines to their alien gods over the course of the next 400 years the olman slowly began to learn how to work stone and bronze and began building great cities within the heart of the jungles clearing the land around them for farming and raising great temples to honor their deities eventually four olman city-states emerged and all delighted in warring on each other and the surrounding yuan-ti communities claiming prisoners as live sacrifices one was broken in a combined effort by two of its neighbors but the remaining three continued to stand firm soon the olman had their first encounter with another race as the nearby touv kingdom of kunda eventually abutted its borders from the south repulsed by their use of human sacrifice and worship of a serpent god the kundali declared war on the olman olmani though at first unfamiliar with the deep jungles the kundali soon adapted and their superior metalworking skills especially their knowledge of iron gave them a marked edge on the olman people further while the war with the kundali went on infighting continued as well the combined forces slowly wearing away at the olman city-states took their toll and two soon collapsed taken as yuan-ti communities this was a severe blow to olman morale and eventually a large number of olman olmani fled migrating deeper into the north end of hepmonaland and west onto the olman islands and into the amedio jungle the remaining olman cities were easily sacked by the kundali driving the survivors into the wilderness and further scattering the olman olmani almost 1600 years ago the first olman olmani travelers reached the amedio jungle burning off large swaths of jungle as they made their way through the amedio jungle amedio and stopping when they found sites of which their gods approved seven great cities were constructed each surrounded by villages and farming communities each city and its surrounding lands was considered its own kingdom with the city its capital but all owed fealty to the high capital city in central amedio jungle amedio though originally thinking of themselves colonies of the hepmonaland olman empire all seven declared themselves independent within the next 300 years upon discovering the utter death of the old empire the new olman empire extended across much of the lands south of the flanaess spanning from the southernmost jungles of the amedio jungle amedio across the olman islands and eventually once more reaching the northernmost part of hepmonaland as well as scattered settlements on the tilvanot peninsula these new city-states prospered for over 500 years but eventually once more fell to internal strife wishing to escape the conflict some followers of the more peaceful gods chose to abandon the jungle fleeing to the nearby olman islands to avoid the destruction spreading across the olman empire founding the lands known today as the axuxal islands a series of horribly destructive civil wars broke out over a variety of issues; choice of emperor religious differences and even the control of certain mines over the course of the next century five of the great cities were destroyed leaving only tamoachan the northernmost city and xamaclan the southernmost not long after the fall of the great cities of the olman olmani there are several written references to a many-eyed god bringing a fiery death in the amedio jungle amedio though the records are so fragmentary that it is unknown to what exactly this refers theories have ranged from some event similar to the rain of colorless fire to an army of beholder beholders swarming the amedio jungle amedio and leaving naught but destruction in their wake some believe this may have even been vengeance brought by one of the demon princes worshipped by the troglodyte civilization which once occupied these lands whose destruction was proclaimed by the olman priests to have been due to these creatures being found lacking by their gods the isolated city of tamoachan was not spared disaster completely though no records of these events dating circa -425 cy have survived modern explorers have uncovered the events of that day through powerful divinations a cadre of arguing priests slowly began escalating their conflict eventually reaching the point of magical warfare while their fight lasted only a day the city was ravaged by powerful spells and terrible summoned monsters citizens were forced to flee for their lives and within the decade the city was entirely claimed by the jungle by this point the great twin cataclysms had taken their toll and surviving suel citizens began arriving from the north not long passed before they came into conflict with the resident olman and the two have been at odds almost continuously in the thousand years since neither side has been willing to negotiate and neither side takes prisoners sacrificing captured members of the other side to their gods these was little change over the next centuries the olman and suel continued to battle each other and themselves for food territory or slaves however around 530 cy the sea princes made their first landfall in the jungles of the amedio jungle amedio those native whom they didn't kill they enslaved taking them back home to use as cheap labor or keeping them in the amedio jungle amedio to force them to dig mines clear vegetation and pick fruits for export thousands of natives died from mistreatment malnutrition and new diseases brought by the slavers some tribal leaders managed minor retaliatory strikes against the captors but most natives saw the slave-takers as a means by which their ancient enemies could be removed beginning slaving raids of their own into suel territory and selling the captured prisoners for iron weapons cheap jewelry minor magical items and alcohol this has continued up to today with much of the mainland infested with slavers from the sea princes and the only safe refuges the walled city of xamaclan and the coastal villages of the axuxal islands and who can tell for how long these areas shall remain secure from the sea princes or perhaps even the suel 